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The correct version of the idiom is definitely the one with blood not water. The first attested use in english is a couple of hundreds years old. You'll find i
by tokai 5y ago
The correct version of the idiom is definitely the one with blood not water. The first attested use in english is a couple of hundreds years old.
You'll find it here in the end of the first paragraph of the Evening LII chapter:
https://archive.org/details/wintereveningso01knoxgoog/page/n242/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/wintereveningso01knoxgoog/page/n...
- ycombinete 5y agoNot only that but searching google for "Carlsen blood from stone" retreives plenty of results showing this version of the idiom being used for Carlsen specifically.